Administration Updates: President
Trump
announced new sanctions on North Korea, which are intended to cut off Pyongyang’s funding sources for nuclear-weapon development by targeting people and companies that do business with the country. Experts praised the strong measures, though they’re likely to ratchet up tensions in the region. Meanwhile, it’s been a week of complicated revelations in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation into the Trump campaign, particularly with respect to Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
David Graham takes stock of how much—and how little—the public knows.
Health Care: Organizations of medical professionals are
overwhelmingly speaking out against the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, with the American Medical Association declaring that the bill “violates the precept of ‘first do no harm.’” Why, after a long series of failures in the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare, is this legislation coming so close to passage now? A debt-ceiling deal that Democrats struck with the president
might have cleared the way.
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